Environmental hazard Malasiqui
Billy Mejia
9 May 2012
Re: Editorial
“Betterer” is key to making our Province not only a great place to live in but more as a tourist attraction!
I’ve just read an article about Malasiqui declaring itself as “Malunggay Capital of Pangasinan” which was published in Sunday Punch on Jan 17, 2010. The article mentioned that Mr. Canuto Mendoza, then a municipal kagawad, authored the ordinance for the planting of malungay along roads all over Malasiqui.
Indeed, it’s a great move towards embracing the miracles of malungay. Unfortunately, the author, Mr. Mendoza, is now the focus of ire and hatred because of his owning/operating amore than 3k heads of pigs in the midst of a residential area in Cotsang, Brgy. Alacan and part of Brgy. Guilig, Malasiqui, Pangasinan. The stench of Mr. Mendoza’s piggery can be smelled by residents of other barangays…Anolid and Taloy of Malasiqui; Anlabo and Cobol of San Carlos City.
The effluent coming from the piggery also affects the productivity of nearby rice/corn farms which is the main livelihood of most of the residents. Despite the blatant violation by Mr. Mendoza of existing environmental laws/regulations and ordinances, and the sufferings of the residents from the stench laden with methane gas, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide and ammonia, and other noxious elements, the concerned authorities still granted him the required permits.
If you want to find out more details of the environmental hazards, which Mr. Mendoza’s piggery continues to wreak in the place, may I invite you to please visit my FB account and click the “Crusaders against the Alacan Cologne” group. Will appreciate very much any help that Sunday Punch could provide to alleviate the environmental conditions in Alacan and nearby places.
Balbaleg a salamat.
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